[Broadside]: Associated News Service: Six Miles Up! Ruth Nichols, society aviatrix, "went up in the air" 32,000 feet over N.Y. the other day for a new altitude record
New York: Elliott Service Co., Mar. 11, 1931.
Price: $600.00
Unbound. Photo illustrated broadside. Measuring 14" x 17". Black and white central image of Nichols standing in the plane cockpit and another of her in heavy jacket with oxygen mask. Fine. The well-born Nichols was a graduate of Wellesley College and held many women's flying records. Shortly after graduation, she received her pilot's license, and became the first woman in the world to obtain a hydroplane license. *OCLC* locates no copies.
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